[Voyage-linux] ECN for ALIX boards

[David Gascón]

>
> they would stay up between 2 and 15 minutes.
what??
why the board was turned off? too much degrees?
just reset due to not enough power levels?

regards.

David.
>
> bob
>
> Edwin Whitelaw wrote:
>> I have a friend locally who does SBC manufacturing and he's agreed to 
>> do the soldering for me.  Unfortunately for me I have 7 units already 
>> in the field with some being a little difficult to get at.  On the 
>> other hand, they have CM9s or other low powered radios and seem to be 
>> working fine so I'll probably just mod the ones still here at the 
>> shop and of course any new ones that come in until they start 
>> appearing with the new mod from PC Engines itself.
>> I received the ECN notice from Dornier himself so it sounded like he 
>> would be adding those capacitors effective immediately.
>>  From the notice:  "Effective: running change, phase in ASAP"
>>
>> It remains to be seen if that simple modification in fact fixes 
>> everything.  I know I'm not alone in my desire to take advantage of 
>> the range and speeds that two 600mw radios can provide on a given 
>> link!  Due to the present problem, I have a drawer full of XR5s that 
>> I will test with as soon as I can get my remaining two boards fixed, 
>> hopefully this week.  I'll load them up with the XR5s and see what 
>> happens.  Stay tuned.
>>
>> As for power supply, I'm using some 12v, 1A units that measure 17+ 
>> volts with the ALIX powered so I can't see that as an issue.
>> Regards,
>>
>> Edwin
>>
>> David Gascón wrote:
>>> thanks for the info.
>>> are you gonna solder these capacitors yourself?
>>> do you know if the next Alix will come with them?
>>>
>>> It would be nice to create a site or at least to post the hacking 
>>> tricks
>>> we made to the boards.
>>>
>>> Normally the boards come with a 1A amperage power source (and 18V). If
>>> you wanna use high power cards obviously you need a higher value to get
>>> it.  The data sheet talks about 18V and 15W as normal values, which
>>> reduces the amount of amperage you can use.
>>> Have any of you dealt with this problem? If we want to use the 600mW
>>> (wich can take up to 1'3A [!!!]) the source or the boards have to be 
>>> hacked.
>>>
>>> what do you think guys about it?
>>>
>>> regards.
>>>
>>> David.
>>>  
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> I've posted the ALIX ECN that Pascal sent me.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nrvunwired.net/apps/Voyage/ecn027.pdf
>>>>
>>>> I hope to have the capacitors added in the next couple of days.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Edwin
>>>>
>>>> David Gascón wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> Hi Edwin,
>>>>>     
>>>>>> Pascal Dornier has sent out a change notice to add one capacitor to
>>>>>> the 3Cs for handling high power cards and this board does not (yet)
>>>>>> have that added.
>>>>>>         
>>>>> Where is this news published? is there any list or something to
>>>>> receive alix announcements ?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> David.
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>
>
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